Henry David Thoreau

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Western Philosophy 19th century philosophy
Maxham daguerreotype of Henry David Thoreau made in 1856.
Name	Henry David Thoreau
Birth	July 12, 1817 Concord, Massachusetts
Death	May 6, 1862 (aged 44) Concord, Massachusetts
School/tradition	Transcendentalism
Main interests	Natural history
Notable ideas	Abolitionism, tax resistance, development criticism, civil disobedience, conscientious objection, direct action, environmentalism, nonviolent resistance, simple living
Influences	Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle
Influenced	Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, William O. Douglas, Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy.

Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817– May 6, 1862)^[1] was an American author, naturalist and philosopher. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

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